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          Appeal No. 96-1848                                                          
          Application 08/161,604                                                      

          (filed March 6,                                                             
          1989)                                                                       
          S.M. Sze, Semiconductor Devices--Physics and Technology                     
          (John Wiley & Sons 1985), pages 360-61.                                     

               The examiner cites the following patents in rebuttal to                
          arguments in appellants' brief:                                             
          Huttemann et al. (Huttemann)       4,981,550       January                  
          1, 1991                                                                     
          Lee et al. (Lee)              4,990,467      February 5,                    
          1991                                                                        

               Claims 31, 32, 35, and 36 stand rejected under                         
          35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Turner or,                       
          alternatively, over Haskell and Deleonibus.                                 
               Claims 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 25-28, and 30 stand rejected                
          under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Haskell and                
          Deleonibus.                                                                 
               Claims 29 and 33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103                  
          as being unpatentable over Haskell and Deleonibus, further                  
          in view of Shirai.                                                          
               Claims 15 and 34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103                  
          as being unpatentable over Haskell, Deleonibus, and Shirai,                 
          further in view of Sze.                                                     


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